little fool's child bride

"Okay, okay," Xiao Xiao looked helplessly at a small pointed rice bowl, "I can't even eat rice with you! By the way, why isn't your brother here?"

"He's off to discuss business," Jiang Muyu replied absent-mindedly, "If you can't eat, just give me the food."

Xiao Xiao gave him a blank look, and then asked why Liu Kaize didn't come to eat.At this time, he remembered the person who looked like Rong Zijin he saw in the morning, and he asked curiously: "Who was that person with Xie Lao in the morning? He looks too similar to a person I know!"

"Rong Yu, Rong Zuoxiang's third son," Jiang Muyu frowned slightly, "People you know—who do you know? Male or female?"

Xiao Xiao was silent for a while, because Jiang Muyu's expression and tone really resembled a jealous wife.Trying to shake off the strange associations in his mind, he told Jiang Muyu about Rong Zijin.

"But I didn't have a close relationship, because after all, I belonged to the Rong family. At that time, I always suspected that it was the Rong family who killed me, so I was always on guard," Xiao Xiao felt baffled when thinking about it now, "It's just that Hongmei never appeared again. The pursuit on the first floor is gone, and Yuyi has never died, so maybe these things are actually caused by Yuyi and have nothing to do with the Rong family."

"Yuyi probably doesn't have the ability to hire a killer," Jiang Muyu put down her chopsticks, "Besides, she's not the kind to cooperate. If she wants to harm you, she must do it herself."

Jiang Muyu was talking about Hongmei's group, after all, they were the ones who wanted to attack Xiao Xiao when Yuyi was still in Jiang's house, so if it was related to Yuyi, it could only be a cooperative relationship.But no matter how he thought Yuyi was not such a person, besides, she had Taoist Budai in charge at the time, so there was no reason to seek foreign aid.

"It's probably not her on the first floor, she can't afford so much money." When the first floor was chasing Xiao Xiao, Yuyi was probably trying to replace Zhang's daughter, and she had neither money nor energy. "The Rong family does have the motivation and the ability to do these things. You did the right thing. The Rong family should guard against it."

"What about Rongyu?" Xiao Xiao asked puzzled, "Why is he here?"

"He originally belonged to the Xiangcheng garrison." Jiang Muyu explained to Xiao Xiao.

It turned out that Rongyu was promoted to the position of Commander-in-Chief when Jiang Muyu took Feiyun to Mingcheng. After Xiangcheng was defeated, he stayed in Ancheng and fought bravely with Zhao Zongbing.Now that Xiangcheng has returned to Baiyu's hands, Jiang Muyu has become the commander-in-chief of Xiangcheng again, so Rong Yu followed Jiang Muyu.Jiang Muyu had some prejudices against him at first, because this kid took war as a joke; later, when he saw that he was steady and steady, he was willing to entrust the affairs to him, and he was willing to invite him to drink in private parties.

"You actually drink?"

Xiao Xiao furrowed her eyebrows and was about to preach, but fortunately, Jiang Muyu quickly added when she saw that something was wrong.

"They drink, I just watch them, don't tell them to make trouble!" Jiang Muyu grinned awkwardly, and then whispered: "But it's okay to drink! It's all entertainment, sooner or later..."

Xiao Xiao naturally knows that Chinese communication culture cannot do without the wine table, if Jiang Muyu wants to go further and stand longer in this officialdom, drinking and socializing is indispensable.But now I'm not even 15 years old, what should I drink?So Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and said, "No! Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol!"

Jiang Muyu nodded sincerely to express acceptance, Xiao Xiao then gave up.The two chatted some gossip again, and after dinner, they went back to their respective rooms, busy dealing with the backlog of affairs.Xiao Xiao put the completed elementary school mathematics textbooks into an envelope, and then planned to find someone to take him to Wangcheng tomorrow, so that he would not forget about it when the time came, and the enlightenment class in Wangcheng had no books to read.Thinking of the enlightenment class, Xiao Xiao unconsciously began to think about whether to get one in Xiangcheng, so that in the future, someone could take care of the accounts of the orchard.

"This should be called induction training." Xiao Xiao was delighted, thinking of the modern brainwashing slogans and the like, "Temporarily make elementary school mathematics a part of the induction training, and only after passing the assessment can I become the management of the orchard..."

Xiao Xiao kept writing, writing down her plan for the orchard on the letter paper.Although Mr. Jiang said that it is enough for him to handle things like manpower and sales channels, Xiao Xiao is still a shareholder and should come up with ideas to make the orchard business bigger and stronger.If he wants to hold more enlightenment classes, he will have to post a lot of money he earned from the orchard business...

Xiao Xiao finally wrote and fell down on the table because of sleepiness, and Jiang Muyu, who was "bored and wandering around", was carried to the bed by him.Then Jiang Muyu left quietly, Xiao Xiao slept until dawn, opened her eyes and wondered how she got into bed for a while, but didn't go into it.

Jiang Muyu was very busy, and Master Jiang also had business to discuss, so Xiao Xiao took Wu Lin to see Fang Ya after washing up.The orchard was outside the city, Fang Ya pulled out a donkey cart, and asked Xiao Xiao to sit on it.

"I don't know when the concrete road will reach our city of Xiangcheng," Fang Ya sighed, "I heard people say that the carriage runs fast and smooth on it, but we can't imagine it anyway. You are not a local, right?" ? The one who attacked Ancheng or Mingcheng?"

Xiao Xiao raised her eyebrows in surprise: "It's really not from the local area, I'm from Ancheng."

"Ancheng? Ancheng is good! That's really envious of the dead," Fang Ya smacked his lips, let out a breath of white air into his hands, and then put two cloth bags that looked like gloves on his hands before getting in the car. The cement road was built to our side, if it wasn’t for the war at that time, I’m afraid we would have been able to connect to Xiangcheng! I heard that Ancheng is now full of cement roads, is this true or not?”

Xiao Xiao recalled what she saw and heard in Ancheng a few days ago: "It's not true. After all, the road construction depends on the future planning of the city, right? After the cement road is completed, it will take at least ten or eight years, no Maybe it will be dug again in order to repair a sewage ditch. So now only a few main roads in Ancheng City have been replaced with cement roads, and the rest are still blue bricks."

Fang Ya didn't expect that Xiao Xiao knew a lot at such a young age, and he was even more sure that he came from those aristocratic families, so he was a little more flattering and careful in his words: "Master, you know a lot! Then look at Xiang How is the development here in the city?"

Xiao Xiao naturally heard Fang Ya's thoughts, and couldn't help but praise this man. "How about the development... In two years at the latest, Xiangcheng will undergo earth-shaking changes."

Two years is the time limit Xiao Xiao gave herself.Xiangcheng is not as geographically superior as Youcheng, but its location adjacent to the grassland gives it more opportunities to communicate with Western countries.Now it is ruined due to the war, but when the society settles down, Xiao Xiao's fruit business and sweater business will make Xiangcheng famous, and it will become the largest import and export market for Baiyu.

"Two years?"

Fang Ya obviously didn't believe it, but he didn't refute it, because he expected Xiao Xiao's status to be quite high.Xiao Xiao didn't bother to explain to him, the three of them arrived at the orchard without a word, and Xiao Xiao began to check the condition of the garden.

Fang Ya was not lying when he said that the garden was not big, it was only half the size of a football field, and there were more than thirty apple trees sparsely planted in it.In the corner of the orchard, there is a small wooden house that has existed for decades. A stooped old man with all white hair walked out of it.

"The owner of this orchard is this little old lady," Fang Ya introduced, "Her children are going to move to Ancheng, and she is worried that she will be here alone, so I want to sell the orchard and take her to Ancheng together."

The old man is nearly 70 years old, and there were not many such filial sons and daughters in ancient times. Fang Ya said it with envy and admiration. "This fruit tree was set on fire by the prairie army before. A few days ago, some children came to cut it like this. Some are still alive, and some are already dead. If you don't mind, you can take it for 20 taels of silver, including these trees. and the house."

Fang Ya, who was so preoccupied, would definitely not say that, because most of them asked him to get rid of the money for the tree and the house, and only wanted to pay for the land.But seeing that Xiao Xiao was not like that kind of stingy person, he wanted to help the old lady get more money, so he directly included the money for the tree and the house.

"Then it's 20 taels." Xiao Xiao was as happy as if she had picked up a bargain, which further confirmed the image of a naive little prince.

After the orchard was settled, Xiao Xiao followed Fang Ya to find Li Zheng to go through the formalities.The orchard happened to be next to a small village, so he spent some money to ask the villagers in the village to dig up the dead fruit trees, leaving only a few living ones.

"Are these still there?" Wu Lin asked curiously. After all, he thought that the famous Mr. Xiao would use this orchard to research something earth-shattering, such as the new Liannu.

Xiao Xiao didn't know what Wu Lin was thinking, so she nodded and said, "That's right, just try to see if the grafting can be successful."

Grafting fruit trees is a very simple matter, or Xiao Xiao only knows one very simple method.That is to choose strong plants first, cut the branches to be grafted to only ten centimeters, and cut a knife edge three or four deep in the cross section.The second is to cut a scion with at least two new shoots, cut the bottom into a wedge, and insert it into the previous branch.Finally, tie the two tightly with a rope and wait for them to survive.

The best time to graft apple trees is in March and April. Looking at those bare trees, Xiao Xiao already fantasized about grafting "apple pears" next year.

"However, the scion must be carefully selected, at least it must be a close relative of apple." Xiao Xiao smiled to dispel her unreliable thoughts, "By then, the fruit in our orchard will definitely be the best!"

Modern apples are also a fusion of at least four varieties. If Xiao Xiao wants to make his own fruit stand out from the crowd, he has to study hard.Wu Lin on the side was already dumbfounded. He never thought that Mr. Xiao was really just planting fruit trees, not researching new weapons.

"You said this apple, is it delicious..." Wu Lin said in a daze.

Xiao Xiao laughed loudly: "It doesn't matter if it's delicious or not, it's a very special, unique thing in the world..."